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From: jg@jumbo.UUCP
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Subject: Re: XQuery physical aspects and background pixmap?
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Date: Sat, 7-Feb-87 02:10:47 EST
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Posted: Sat Feb  7 02:10:47 1987
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Reply-To: jg@jumbo.UUCP (Jim Gettys)
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In article <3940001@hpcvlo.HP.COM> ken@hpcvlo.HP.COM (Ken Bronstein) writes:

>2) Is it possible to get info from the X server about the physical
>dimension of the display, like the actual size (in meters, inches
>etc.) of the display;  and/or the aspect ratio of the pixels?

In my previous reply, I was being stupid (probably from working on V11
too hard); V11 will give you both the number of pixels and the size in 
millimeters of the display, so the aspect ratio of the pixels is implicit
in the ratio of these two numbers.  You are out of luck in V10 except
by looking at the vendor information and inferring it that way.
				-Jim